desensitizing

Verb

desensitize (third-person singular simple present desensitizes, present participle desensitizing, simple past and past participle desensitized)

1. (ambitransitive) To render (someone) emotionally or sensationally less responsive or irresponsive, as by long or repeated exposure to something.
   • Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood.

   Synonyms:

   deaden, benumb, stupefy

2. (ambitransitive) To render (a person or animal) nonreactive or insensitive to an allergen.
3. (ambitransitive) To render (a photographic plate or film) less sensitive or insensitive to actinic rays of light.
4. (ambitransitive) To free (someone) from the emotional charge of a neurosis or complex.
5. (ambitransitive) To make non-image portions of (a lithographic stone or plate) repellent to ink.